Rizzuto, Barbara (mcgrath)

June 12, 1998

RIZZUTO, Barbara (McGrath)

Barbara (McGrath) Rizzuto, 52, of Windsor. Beloved wife of Philip F. Rizzuto, Sr. and loving mother and grandmother, died Thursday (June 11, 1998) at Hartford Hospital. Born in Brooklyn, NY daughter of the late Clinton and Amy (Mason) McGrath, she had lived in Windsor for 34 years moving from Hartford where she was a graduate of Hartford Public High School in 1964. Barbara was employed at the St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing for many years and was a member of St. Gertrude's Church and the Ladies Guild of the Church, she also was a member of the Greater Hartford Christian Women's Club, the St. Francis Hospital Women's Auxiliary, a volunteer at the Windsor Senior Center and a former member of the Windsor Junior Women's Club. She was a very active member of the Hartford Hospital Transplant Support Group promoting the awareness of organ and tissue donations. Barbara was a kidney recipient on August 20, 1986. She was very grateful to the donor and family for giving her the chance to live a normal and healthy life free from dialysis with her family and friends by receiving this generous gift of life. Barbara's final wish is to thank her family members and all of the wonderful friends that she was blessed with to help her endure and enjoy her trials and tribulations. Besides her husband she leaves two loving sons and daughters-in-law, Philip Jr. and Marianella Rizzuto, Daniel and Nancy Rizzuto all of Windsor; three grandchildren, Samantha Barbara Rizzuto, Courtney-Lynn Rizzuto and Gina Marie Rizzuto; three brothers and sisters-in-law, Laurence and Susan Mason of New Britain, John and Ruby McGrath of Broadbrook and Clinton McGrath Jr. of Bristol; a sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Ann and Roland LaChance of Newington. Funeral services will be Monday (June 15), 9 a.m. from the Carmon Windsor Funeral Home, 807 Bloomfield Ave., Windsor, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial 10 a.m. at St. Gertrude's Church, Windsor. Burial will be in Mt. St. Benedict's Cemetery, Bloomfield. Her family will receive friends at the Carmon Windsor Funeral Home, 807 Bloomfield Ave., Windsor, Sunday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to Hartford Hospital Transplant Unit, Fund Development Office, 80 Seymour St., Hartford 06106.